Vocabulary Word
Word: respite
Definition: time for rest; interval of relief; delay in punishment; reprieve
Definition: time for rest; interval of relief; delay in punishment; reprieve
Sentences Containing 'respite'
Moreover, the respite allowed by a narcotic is exceedingly brief, and a depression which is long and deep inevitably follows.
I now hoped for respite in sleep; but no, it reveled all through my head till sunrise again, a frantic and tireless nightmare.
Then I have my mode of dispensing justice, silent and sure, without respite or appeal, which condemns or pardons, and which no one sees.
I will so advantageously bestow 2,000 piastres, that the person receiving them shall obtain a respite till next year for Peppino; and during that year, another skilfully placed 1,000 piastres will afford him the means of escaping from his prison.''
My dear Albert, one word, for I must give poor Lucien a respite.
We profited by this respite on the part of the government to make friends everywhere.
However, the last two or three years I had allowed myself some respite.
The dealers have no respite from the continual visits and examination of the excise officers.
As it was, his settlement gave two centuries of respite to the Roman Empire; had he fulfilled the plan of pushing the imperial frontiers to the Elbe, which seems to have been in his mind, much more might have been accomplished.
One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense; and another without relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless.
'Placed in a mental position of peculiar painfulness, beyond the assuaging reach even of Mrs. Micawber's influence, though exercised in the tripartite character of woman, wife, and mother, it is my intention to fly from myself for a short period, and devote a respite of eight-and-forty hours to revisiting some metropolitan scenes of past enjoyment.
And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who by his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and the ship's work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of command.
was the cry, an announcement immediately followed by Stubb's producing his match and igniting his pipe, for now a respite was granted.
More Vocab Words
::: parvenu - upstart; newly rich person::: cringe - shrink back as if in fear; cower
::: disport - amuse; Ex. disport oneself; CF. divert
::: notch - V-shaped cut in a surface; V.
::: neophyte - recent convert; new member of a religious group; beginner; CF. plant
::: unction - the act of anointing with oil; Ex. extreme unction
::: indecisive - marked by indecision; inconclusive; Ex. indecisive battle
::: skulk - move furtively and secretly; Ex. He skulked through the less fashionable sections of the city.
::: madrigal - pastoral song; song for several singers without instruments
::: bleak - cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing
